There is another tool in the kit that the soviets didn't have. Sort of a neo-Samizdat. Encrypted messaging apps like signal and telegram. They can be used to send info directly to people and are at least fairly difficult for them to intercept. You can easily get all your family and friends on the platform and it's like your own personal Twitter or something.
I don't think many people would understand the days of the old internet. Back when you skirted everything through IRC chats, sharing files scattered into pieces that needed to be compiled, renamed, and combined. Or, even finding hidden links to things in a webpages source file.
We had so many little tricks that even savvy people who didn't participate in the coding/hacking part were privy to, because back then we were communities that shared everything — especially information.
People traded those valuable skills for convenience. Which is understandable in a way but has also made them so much easier to control.
There is another tool in the kit that the soviets didn't have. Sort of a neo-Samizdat. Encrypted messaging apps like signal and telegram. They can be used to send info directly to people and are at least fairly difficult for them to intercept. You can easily get all your family and friends on the platform and it's like your own personal Twitter or something.
Yes. HAM radio. WiFi mesh networks. Local autists building mini servers of cached data like a local library on mesh networks.
Back to the BBS days, boys! Door games, muds, caches of text file and pdf books, local roving bands of hackers and demo coders.
I don't think many people would understand the days of the old internet. Back when you skirted everything through IRC chats, sharing files scattered into pieces that needed to be compiled, renamed, and combined. Or, even finding hidden links to things in a webpages source file.
We had so many little tricks that even savvy people who didn't participate in the coding/hacking part were privy to, because back then we were communities that shared everything — especially information.
People traded those valuable skills for convenience. Which is understandable in a way but has also made them so much easier to control.